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 BM> Following from a conversation I've been having in e-mail.
 BM> Entered here with knowledge of my corespondent with the intent of
 BM> generating some thoughtful and more on topic exchanges.
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 BM> From:   Beth Smith
 BM> Sent:  Saturday, July 19, 1997 9:32 PM
 BM> How often do you come across kids who have been diagnosed with ADHD
 BM> but are really bipolar? I have a friend who is ADHD and has 2 kids also
 BM> diagnosed and she was telling me that her psychiatrist thinks her kids
 BM> are bipolar and not ADHD, also she was reading an article he gave her
 BM> and it sounds just like the child i described to you in my last
 BM> letter. He was telling her that they are finding a large number of mis-
 BM> diagnosed children that are on Ritalin who really should be on
 BM> Mellaril or another med that escapes my mind right now, have you heard
 BM> anything about this?
 BM> Thanks
 BM> Beth
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 BM> Okay folks lets hear from you.  Of _COURSE_ I have an opinion but will
 BM> hold onto it for a bit.. (-8
 BM> Bob
 This is quite interesting.  My son who is now 12 1/2 was diagnoised as
 ADHD in first grade.  He went on ritalin, and it did help, but it caused
 alot of side effects for him.  The last few years there has been few
 hyperness episodes (not on ritalin since 2nd grade) and I believe he
 really never was extremly hyper in the first place.  I notice though
 the last year that the last 2 years he seems to have real high and real
 low times.  Acting petcular at times with sillyness and getting that
 way during happy moments and then dropping really low almost depressed.
 My daughter was diagnosed as manic depressive a year ago and I am now
 wondering myself if my son was misdiagnosed.  Maybe ADD with bipolar
 also.  I see it more and more.  He is also LD.  I believe it is very
 possible that children can be misdiagnosed with ADHD as bipolar seems
 to come out more clearly during adolensence.
 Regina
... All I need is a Wave and a board to surf it on.
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